Taken up…

 

Taken up…

You’ve watched your best friend die a cruel death…then found an empty tomb…he walks with you on a road… he is seen by many…he shows up behind locked doors…he fixes a fish breakfast on the beach…he blesses you…”he did many other things “…and then He is “taken up” before your eyes after giving two last instructions…”wait and witness”….

From  despair to joy…in a short season of time…then the work begins….

I thought back to Enoch, another who was taken up…or 

Elijah taken up in a whirlwind…

Enoch was a godly man who left behind his family….Elijah left behind his cloak for Elisha….but, Jesus gave instructions and left behind  a promise of the Holy Spirit, a promise of His return…Jesus wasn’t just a mere man, but the Son of 

God…who now sits at the right hand of God…but promises never to leave or forsake us…

I don’t understand how that all happens, I have decided to take His Word by faith…in that he fulfills what he promises…

Thank YOU…. 

 When he had led them out to the vicinity of Bethany, he lifted up his hands and blessed them. 

While he was blessing them, he left them and was taken up into heaven. 

Then they worshiped him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy. And they stayed continually at the temple, praising God.

Luke.24.50-53

 In my former book, Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus began to do and to teach until the day he was taken up to heaven, after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles he had chosen. 

After his suffering, he presented himself to them and gave many convincing proofs that he was alive. He appeared to them over a period of forty days and spoke about the kingdom of God. On one occasion, while he was eating with them, he gave them this command: “Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised, which you have heard me speak about. For John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.” 

Then they gathered around him and asked him, “Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?” He said to them: “It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority. 

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” 

After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight. 

They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them. “Men of Galilee,” they said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven.”

Acts.1.1-11

 When Enoch had lived 65 years, he became the father of Methuselah. After he became the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked faithfully with God 300 years and had other sons and daughters. Altogether, Enoch lived a total of 365 years. Enoch walked faithfully with God; then he was no more, because God took him away.

Gen.5.21-24

 When the Lord was about to take Elijah up to heaven in a whirlwind, Elijah and Elisha were on their way from Gilgal. 

As they were walking along and talking together, suddenly a chariot of fire and horses of fire appeared and separated the two of them, and Elijah went up to heaven in a whirlwind. Elisha saw this and cried out, “My father! My father! The chariots and horsemen of Israel!” And Elisha saw him no more. Then he took hold of his garment and tore it in two.

2Kgs.2.1,11-12 

And being found in appearance as a man,he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death—even death on a cross! 

Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord,to the glory of God the Father.

Phil.2.8-11

Up from The grave…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oN77HjfAc8k